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Japan has yet to formally join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, but that isn't stopping its citizens from speaking out against restrictive copyright measures found within the TPP text. Now, as both Canada and Mexico have been formally admitted into TPP trade talks (albeit at lower-tiered statuses), the spotlight is on Japan in possibly joining next.

What do you get when you round up an enthusiastic group of digital rights experts, online innovators and advocates of Net Freedom – all with the purpose of taking any and all questions from members of the Internet community?

As Internet freedom becomes restricted and censored in many repressive countries, over one million citizens a day are using online tools to get past government surveillance and extensive blocking devices.

With Canada and Mexico having formally joined last week, eleven countries will now be participating in the next round of Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations. What's at stake? Our Internet freedom.

Find out more in this video from Public Knowledge and share your messages to TPP negotiators at OpenTheTPP.net.

As citizens worldwide continue to have their Internet expression and privacy threatened by international treaties such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, we have to remind ourselves that our access to choice and innovation is being stifled by a lack of competition.

We're standing together with tens of thousands of organizations and people from around the world in defending our Internet freedom. Help us push for transparency in Internet policy and sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom.